Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Great Regulars: In reading [Lars] Gustafsson and

[Fredrik] Nyberg side by side, though, I am struck by the similarity between the generational change in Swedish poetry and that in American poetry. In both literatures, a mid-century generation intent, in various ways, on rescuing subjective experience from a rationalized, bureaucratized world has passed the torch to a generation whose personal concerns are tempered by a skepticism about language that makes their poems complex, fraught and, in the hands of a poet as nimble as Nyberg, strangely brilliant.

from Powells: Review-A-Day: Double Gesture

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